PSYC 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mary Whiton Calkins, Edward B. Titchener, Sigmund Freud

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2003
• Professor: Andrew Provenzano

Document Summary

Psychology: psyche: soul or mind, logos: the study of. Psychology"s roots: questions posed by philosophy, methods borrowed from the physical sciences. Phy: physiology: study of biological processes in the human body, helmholtz, stimulated parts of the leg. Behaviorism: study of observable behavior, contrary to other methods, tabula rasa (blank slate with aristotle, john watson. Skinner and behaviorism: animals act on their environments, operant conditioning, skinner box/conditioning chamber (the rat in the box, reinforcement: consequences of savior determine whether it will occur again, utopian society controlled by principles of reinforcements, walden ii. Cognitive psychology: 1950"s advent of computers, model for human mind, taking the computer and trying to understand the human mind the same way. Info processing b: cognitive psychology: the scienti c study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory, and reasoning. Technology and cognitive psychology: army wii, solider learn to better radar, broadbent, attention; limited.